If you are junior, expect to work incredibly hard on work which is not always interesting.

Advice to Management

Focus more on growing the talent pool at the more junior end of the company - unfortunately the inverted pyramid that is emerging is resulting in burn out, attrition and disillusionment in these employees.

The culture, the people and the environment are unique ! Airbnb offers an amazing Work/Life balance with amazing benefits.The product is really great and even after 11 years it's only the beginning so many great new features to come :-)

Cons

Growing in the company can be tricky as it's not by working hard you'll get a promotion but by doing chit chat with the people of department you wanna go.

Advice to Management

Value your people for the work they do and not the useless/fake chit chat to get promoted

I have seen a concerning number of employees suffering from burnout and medical problems. Salary is lower thank the market, unclear expectations are set and management does not have an execution plan to fix for any problems that arise. Bullying tacticts are often employed to make people who speak up - stand down and navigate their unrealistic expectations. Eg. You are told one thing to work on for a promotion but during the review they tell you you misunderstood or that in fact you should have know to work on other priorities.

If you know the right people you will get promoted - if don't you will not - no matter how good you are!People got promoted in management positions with no experience!If you criticize what is going on you get blamed and ridiculed - criticism is brushed off.Bullying is common and if you complain about it, you are blamed.HR and Management are incompetent and they back each other, so no change will ever happen.The salaries are a joke! Especially for Dublin! The competition pays for similar roles 5-10k more per year.Staff turnover was so massive, people were told not to write any "goodbye" emails anymore as it would affect everybody negatively!There are very few career opportunities, and these are reserved for people who have connections!

Advice to Management

Brian, Joe and Nate - if you read this, get over here asap and talk to the people on the ground. Airbnb is falling apart. Talk to everyone, especially the ones in the support roles! Take it in and respond to criticism and especially change things. Management will tell you what you want to hear. They will not tell you that everything is falling apart as it would look bad on themselves. Every time you guys came over here, we were told to smile and say that everything is great.Airbnb was ruined by incompetent people, who would never get blamed for their own mistakes. The question has to be asked, how where people promoted into management positions without any experience over people who have had years of experience?